{"id":51062,"date":"2024-06-26T18:15:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T11:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=51062"},"modified":"2024-06-26T18:15:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T11:15:29","slug":"the-boy-and-the-heron-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/the-boy-and-the-heron-2023","title":{"rendered":"The Boy and the Heron (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother’s tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy’s mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the “long-awaited one.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother’s tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5822,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-animation","category-fantasy","director-hayao-miyazaki","stars-aimyon","stars-keiko-takeshita","stars-ko-shibasaki","stars-masaki-suda","stars-soma-santoki","stars-takuya-kimura","stars-yoshino-kimura","country-japan","release-year-32846","quality-webrip"],"yoast_head":"\n